As the AI Agent narrative continues to gain momentum across the crypto industry, the market is rapidly evolving from “AI-generated strategies” toward a new phase of “autonomous AI execution.” However, most AI Agents today still lack access to real liquidity, persistent execution capabilities, and on-chain settlement infrastructure, leaving the foundational layer of the Agent Economy in its early stages.
RunePool has officially completed a $1.05 million seed funding round on May 10, at a $40.5 million valuation. The round was backed by Semantic Ventures, DNA Fund, K300 Ventures, along with several well-known crypto investors.
RunePool is an on-chain liquidity and execution protocol designed specifically for AI Agents, aiming to provide unified capital access and a continuous execution environment for autonomous agents. By integrating liquidity aggregation, strategy execution, and on-chain settlement capabilities, RunePool enables AI Agents to independently perform on-chain activities such as trading, market making, and automated strategy execution.
According to the team, RunePool is currently developing several core infrastructure modules, including the Unified Liquidity Layer, Programmable Capital, and Continuous Execution Environment. These components are designed to help AI Agents evolve from simple “strategy-generation tools” into fully autonomous on-chain economic participants with real execution capabilities.
The team stated that the newly raised funds will primarily be allocated toward protocol development, security audits, and ecosystem expansion, while continuing to accelerate the integration of AI Agents with DeFi infrastructure.
Several participating investors believe that as the on-chain automated economy continues to expand, infrastructure capable of supporting autonomous agent execution and capital coordination will become one of the most critical directions in the next phase of Web3 development. RunePool aims to build the core execution layer powering this emerging Agent Economy.
